Question

I have few global methods declared in public class in my ASP.NET web application.

I have habit of declaring all global methods in public class in following format

public static string MethodName(parameters) { }

I want to know how it would impact on performance point of view?

1. Which one is better? Static Method or Non-Static Method?
2. Reason why it is better?

http://bytes.com/topic/c-sharp/answers/231701-static-vs-non-static-function-performance#post947244 states:

because, static methods are using locks to be Thread-safe. The always
do internally a Monitor.Enter() and Monitor.exit() to ensure
Thread-safety.

While http://dotnetperls.com/static-method states:

static methods are normally faster to invoke on the call stack than
instance methods. There are several reasons for this in the C#
programming language. Instance methods actually use the ‘this’
instance pointer as the first parameter, so an instance method will
always have that overhead. Instance methods are also implemented with
the callvirt instruction in the intermediate language, which imposes a
slight overhead. Please note that changing your methods to static
methods is unlikely to help much on ambitious performance goals, but
it can help a tiny bit and possibly lead to further reductions.

I am little confused which one to use?

Answer 1

Your first link states:

Thats because static methods are using
locks to be Thread-safe. The always do
internally a Monitor.Enter() and
Monitor.exit() to ensure Thread-safety

That is utterly, horribly, abominably wrong.

If you add [MethodImpl(MethodImplOptions.Synchronized)] to the method, that statement becomes partially true.

Adding this attribute will cause the CLR to wrap static methods inside lock(typeof(YourClass)) and instance methods inside of lock(this).

This should be avoided where possible

---

Your second link is correct.
Static methods are a little bit faster than instance methods, because they don’t have a this parameter (thus skipping a NullReferenceException check from the callvirt instruction)